Everything not saved will be lost
01-15.08.2024 La Fonda, Biarritz (FR)
Hanna Rochereau’s Everything not saved will be lost at La Fonda was inspired in part
by its unconventional setting: an ornate interior in the seaside town of
Biarritz that was previously the showroom and studio of Gabrielle Chanel. The
designer first opened her haute couture house on the road to the beach in 1915,
when droves of European aristocrats flocked to their summer homes to wait out
World War 1. Above her conspicuous storefront, Chanel’s private room served as
both parlor for receiving glamorous clientele on holiday from busy metropolis
living, and production site for creating their custom-tailored ensembles.
Between her nearby factory where her designs were produced and the downstairs
shop where they were displayed and sold, the room upstairs operated according
to a slower kind of time towards different ends: the production of carefully
crafted, one-of-a-kind garments for specific bodies. See more +
Curation: La Fonda Text: Marie Catalano Photo: Juantxo Egana
Ni drame ni suspense
23.06.23–24.09.23 Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille (FR)
[...] Hanna Rochereau's paintings focus on display and enhancement devices, often in fashion, but here in museums: the diptych represents the scenography designed by architect Lina Bo Bardi for the MASP in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Two quadrilaterals represent the paintings to be displayed, sublimating the concrete and glass easels on which Hanna Rochereau affixes seductive star shapes reminiscent of the formal vocabulary of cheap commercial labelling. See more +
Curation: Triangle–Astréides (Marie de Gaulejac, Florence Gosset, Victorine Grataloup et Camille Ramanana Rahary) Text: Victorine Grataloup Photo: Aurélien Mole
Riding the bliss 18.03.23–23.04.23 La Traverse, Marseille (FR)
[...] PRÉSENTATION: Et puis, en fait, introductions, adresses, syntaxes, codes, citations, références populaires, gifs, plateformes: ce ne sont qu’emballages. Alors je savoure le bonbon, le crépitement brillant qui le précède, le jeu du chat et de la souris, la préparation et le trash talk sans fin pour un combat de 2 minutes, le jeu de l’entertainment, du cadeau et de sa dissimulation, contenu, contenant, l’amant et l’être aimé, un peu bouffant, un peu bouffé, chatoyant, choyé. Et si il n’y avait que ça? Circuits longs de plus en plus courts, babines, salives, réflexes, récompenses. See more +
Curation: Catherine Bastide Photo: Jean-Christophe Lett
Keeping Up Appearances 01–18.12.22 Lokal Int, Bienne (CH)
[...] In an overall, times seem to collapse. While the injunction «keep up appearances» evokes the merciless rhythm of consumption and its social pressure, the patching of various eras of interiors, styles and references layered by the very personal spectrum of the artist’s envies and desires give the feeling of an anachronistic compilation. The feeling of time are shuffled once again by the slow-process of painting that certainly operate as a catharsis. The artistic process being way longer than the one of the commercial purchase provide a kind of reverse chronology. Hanna reinvent the idea of possession that can no longer be dealt with impersonal currencies but need to be owned first: desiring the desire. Keep up with appearances is no longer a threat, and the rules of the visual merchandising are no longer «what you see is what you get». It tells us instead that we do desire, we can then see. See more +
Curation: Héloïse Chassepot Photo: Stefania Carlotti
Shifters 17.10.22–05.11.22 Sentiment, Paris (FR/CH)
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The new age soundtrack in the downstairs waiting hall at Orly does little to ease the shock. I stroll past carousels of perfume stock, to get distracted and waste time. The overall vibe gives me nothing to hold onto, remaining as transitory as its location. “Eternity” “Fahrenheit” “Poison” “Knowing” “Ma liberté”. I embalm myself. The word perfume comes from the Latin word “fumus” meaning “smoke” probably related to incense burned into the air in the moment of prayer. With the invention of toilet spray waters, came restoration, from energies lost in business, social and domestic situations. One of the first perfumes in Europe, “Hungary Water” was named after the so-called Queen of Hungary who commanded a court alchemist to make it for her headaches. But, the legend says she never existed, she was invented. See more +
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Curation: Sentiment Photo: Jean Vincent Simonet
Shifters 17.10.22–05.11.22 Sentiment, Paris (FR/CH)
